text: Updated: 20 September 2017 09:55 MINECRAFT END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT In order to protect Minecraft (our "Game") and the members of our community, we need these end user license terms to set out some rules for downloading and using our Game. This license is a legal agreement between you and us (Mojang AB) and describes the terms and conditions for using the Game. We don't like reading license documents any more than you do, so we have tried to keep this as short as possible. If you break these rules we may stop you from using our Game. If we think it is necessary, we might even have to ask our lawyers to help out. If you buy, download, use or play our Game, you are agreeing to stick to the rules of these end user license agreement ("EULA") terms. If you don't want to or can't agree to these rules, then you must not buy, download, use or play our Game. This EULA incorporates the terms of use for the mojang.com website ("Account Terms"), our brand and asset usage guidelines, our privacy policy, and, if you live in the United States, our Arbitration Agreement. By agreeing to this EULA you also agree to all of the terms of the foregoing documents, so please read through them carefully. BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER IF YOU LIVE IN THE UNITED STATES For those that who live in the United States, please click here to review the binding arbitration agreement and class action waiver that is part of this EULA. Under the agreement, we both agree to use a neutral arbitrator to decide any individual claims that may arise and thus agree to waive our rights to bring individual claims in court for consideration by a judge or jury. We also agree that class action lawsuits and class-wide arbitrations are not allowed under the terms of the agreement. The complete Arbitration Agreement is on this page. You and we agree to it; please read it. ONE MAJOR RULE The one major rule is that you must not distribute anything we've made unless we specifically agree to it. By "distribute anything we've made" what we mean is: â¢Â give copies of our Game to anyone else; â¢Â make commercial use of anything we've made; â¢Â try to make money from anything we've made; or â¢Â let other people get access to anything we've made in a way that is unfair or unreasonable; unless we specifically agree to it. And so that we are crystal clear, "the Game" or "what we have made" includes, but is not limited to, the client or the server software for our Game and includes Minecraft and Minecraft: Java Edition on all platforms. It also includes updates, patches, downloadable content, add-ons, or modified versions of a Game, part of those things, or anything else we've made. Otherwise we are quite relaxed about what you do - in fact we really encourage you to do cool stuff - but just don't do those things that we say you can't. USING OUR GAME You have been granted a license to the Game so you can play and use it, yourself, on your devices. Below we also give you limited rights to do other things but we have to draw a line somewhere or else people will go too far. If you wish to make something pertaining to anything we've made we're humbled, but please make sure that it can't be interpreted as being official and that it complies with this EULA and the brand and asset usage guidelines and above all do not make commercial use of anything we've made. The license and permission we give you to use and play our Game can be revoked if you break any of the terms of this EULA. When you buy our Game, you receive a license that gives you permission to install the Game on your own personal device and use and play it on that device as set out in this EULA. This permission is personal to you, so you are not allowed to distribute the Game (or any part of it) to anyone else. This also means you cannot sell or rent the Game, or make it available for access to other people and you cannot pass on or resell any license keys. You may however give gift codes that have been bought through our official gift code system. This is important to help us stop piracy and fraud and to protect our Game. It is also important to prevent members of our community from buying pirated versions of our Game or fraudulent license keys - which we may cancel, such as in the case of fraud. If you've bought the Game, you may play around with it and modify it by adding modifications, tools, or plugins, which we will refer to collectively as "Mods." By "Mods," we mean something original that you or someone else created that doesn't contain a substantial part of our copyrightable code or content. When you combine your Mod with the Minecraft software, we will call that combination a "Modded Version" of the Game. We have the final say on what constitutes a Mod and what doesn't. You may not distribute any Modded Versions of our Game or software, and weâd appreciate it if you didnât use Mods for griefing. Basically, Mods are okay to distribute; hacked versions or Modded Versions of the Game client or server software are not okay to distribute. Within reason you're free to do whatever you want with screenshots and videos of the Game. By "within reason" we mean that you can't make any commercial use of them or do things that are unfair or adversely affect our rights unless we've specifically said it's okay in this EULA, allowed it through the Brand and Asset Usage Guidelines, or provided for it in a specific agreement with you. If you upload videos of the game to video sharing and streaming sites you are however allowed to put ads on them. Also, don't just rip art resources and pass them around, that's no fun. Essentially the simple rule is do not make commercial use of anything we've made unless we've specifically said it's okay. Oh and if the law expressly allows it, such as under a "fair use" or fair dealing" doctrine then that's ok too - but only to the extent that the law applicable to you says so. In order to ensure the integrity of the Game, we need all Game downloads and updates to come from an authorized source. It's also important for us that 3rd party tools/services don't seem "official" as we can't guarantee their quality. It's part of the responsibility we have to the customers of Minecraft. Make sure that you read through our brand and asset usage guidelines too. OWNERSHIP OF OUR GAME AND OTHER THINGS Although we license you permission to install on your device and play our Game, we are still the owners of it. We are also the owners of our brands and any content contained in the Game. Therefore, when you pay for our Game, you are buying a license to play / use our Game in accordance with this EULA - you are not buying the Game itself. The only permissions you have in connection with the Game and your installation of it are the permissions set out in this EULA. Any Mods you create for the Game from scratch belong to you (including pre-run Mods and in-memory Mods) and you can do whatever you want with them, as long as you don't sell them for money / try to make money from them and so long as you donât distribute Modded Versions of the Game. Remember that a Mod means something that is your original work and that does not contain a substantial part of our code or content. You only own what you created; you do not own our code or content. CONTENT If you make any content available on or through our Game, you agree to give us permission to use, copy, modify, adapt, distribute, and publicly display that content. This permission is irrevocable, and you also agree to let us permit other people to use, copy, modify, adapt, distribute, and publicly display your content. You are not giving up your ownership rights in your content, you are just giving us and other users permission to use it. For example, we may need to copy, reformat, and distribute content that you post on our website so others can read it. If you don't want to give us these permissions, do not make content available on or through our Game. Please think carefully before you make any content available, because it may be made public and might even be used by other people in a way you don't like. If you are going to make something available on or through our Game, it must not be offensive to people or illegal, it must be honest, and it must be your own creation. Some examples of the types of things you must not make available using our Game include: posts that include racist or homophobic language; posts that are bullying or trolling; posts that are offensive or that damage our or another person's reputation; posts that include porn or someone else's creation or image; or posts that impersonate a moderator or try to trick or exploit people. Any content you make available on our Game must also be your creation or you must have permission or the legal right to do it. You must not and you agree that you will not make any content available, using the Game that infringes the rights of others. ' We reserve the right to take down any content in our discretion. Please watch out if you are talking to people in our Game. It is hard for either you or us to know for sure that what people say is true, or even if people are really who they say they are. You should think twice about giving out information about yourself. 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Thatâs what we mean when we say âsubject to applicable lawâ. SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE LAW, When you get a copy of our Game, we provide it "'as is"'. Updates are also provided "'as is"'. This means that we are not making any promises to you about the standard or quality of our Game, or that our Game will be uninterrupted or error free. We are not responsible for any loss or damage that it may cause. You bear the entire risk as to its quality and performance. You have to accept that we may release games well before they are complete and so they may (and often will) have bugs -but we prefer to release these features early than make you wait for perfection. If you would like to notify us about a potential bug, we have a site for that here. If you and we ever have a dispute in court (and we hope that won't happen just as much as you do), the exclusive forum (that is, the place it will be handled) will be a state or federal court in King County, WA (if you live in the United States) or a court in Ontario (if you live in Canada). (If you live in the United States, most disputes go to arbitration, not court.) The laws of your state or province govern this EULA and all disputes, including disputes relating to it, our Game, or our Website, regardless of conflict of laws principles, except that the Federal Arbitration Act governs everything related to arbitration. TERMINATION If we want we can terminate this EULA if you breach any of the terms. You can terminate it too, at any time; all you have to do is uninstall the Game from your device and the EULA will be terminated. If the EULA is terminated, you will no longer have any of the rights to the Game given in this license. You do still have the right to things you have created yourself with the game of course. The Arbitration Agreement (if you live in the United States) and the paragraphs about "Ownership of Our Game", "Our Liability" and "General Stuff" will continue to apply even after the EULA is terminated. GENERAL STUFF Your local law may give you rights that this EULA cannot change; if so, this EULA applies as far as the law allows. Nothing in this license limits our liability for death or bodily injury resulting from our negligence or fraudulent misrepresentations. We may change this EULA from time to time, if we have reason to, such as changes to our games, our practices, or our legal obligation. But those changes will be effective only to the extent that they can legally apply. For example if you use the Game only in single-player mode and don't use the updates we make available then the old EULA applies but if you do use the updates or use parts of the game that rely on our providing ongoing online services then the new EULA will apply. In that case we'll inform you of the change before it takes effect, either by posting a notice on our Website or by other reasonable means. We're not going to be unfair about this though - but sometimes the law changes or someone does something that affects other users of the Game and we therefore need to put a lid on it. If you come to us with a suggestion for any one of our Websites or Games, that suggestion is made for free and we have no obligation to accept or consider it. This means we can use or not use your suggestion in any way we want and we don't have to pay you for it. 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At first glance the Gigabyte B75M-DH3 looks to have a typo as you would expect a Gigabyte board to start with the letter G and contain upwards of 11 numbers and letters afterwards, but this name indicates it is using the B75 Express chipset. That means full Ivy Bridge support, with a PCIe 3.0 16x slot, a pair of SATA 6Gbps ports and four USB 3.0 ports and it also sports Gigabyte's Ultra Durable 4 technology and a UEFI BIOS. Since this is a business oriented board it lacks some of the overclocking ability common to enthusiast boards and TechPowerUp found the back panel to be a little sparse, however at $80 this is a solid choice for any budget minded tech looking to put together an Ivy Bridge system.
"Gigabyte sent me one of their entry-level products to check out, called the B75M-D3H. Yet make no mistake, just because this product is value-oriented, does not mean it by any means cheap! What makes Gigabyte's B75M-D3H so great? We'll find out in our review."
Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
- ASUS Republic of Gamers and X79 ROG Review – Rampage IV Gene, Formula and Extreme @ AnandTech
- Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H WiFi Review @ HardwareLOOK
- MSI Z77A-GD55 Motherboard Review @ Techgage
- Zotac Z77-ITX WiFi (Z77ITX-A-E) @ FunkyKit
- ASRock Z75 Pro3 @ Tweaktown
- ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional: The Most Feature-Rich LGA 1155 Mainboard @ X-bit Labs
- ASUS Maximus V Extreme @ Hardware.info
- ASRock Z77 Pro3 @ Tweaktown
- Gigabyte Z77X-UP4 TH @ Kitguru
- ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe Mini-ITX @ Tweaktown
- ASUS P8Z77-V Thunderbolt Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews
- Eight Intel H77 motherboards round-up @ Hardware.info
- Gigabyte Sniper M3 Motherboard Review @ HardwareLOOK @ HardwareLook
- Everything You Need to Know About Chipsets @ Hardware Secrets
- BIOS Option Of The Week – Display Card Priority @ TechARP

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IEEE Volunteer Training
The training opportunities that follow are for volunteers of IEEE. They are meant to help volunteers understand how IEEE functions and to explain the many services IEEE has to offer.
IEEE Technical Activities Volunteer TrainingIEEE Technical Activities provides a variety of training opportunities in the form of workshops, webinars and self-guided tutorials. The training is designed to prepare IEEE volunteers for their various roles within the organization by educating them about the primary functions of IEEE, Technical Activities, and IEEE societies as well as about volunteer services offered by IEEE. IEEE Technical Activities is currently working to create a more effective and engaging user experience. For more information on training opportunities and access to training materials, please visit the new IEEE Technical Activities Operations Site, or contact TA Answer Central with any questions or concerns. IEEE Center for Leadership Excellence (CLE)The Center for Leadership Excellence (CLE) is a learning resource aimed at meeting the self-improvement needs of professionals as well as those who are preparing to enter professional practice in the electro-technology fields served by IEEE. CLE training is focused on two broad areas: Training for IEEE Volunteers: This training consists of Quick Start training modules for key local IEEE volunteer positions. These modules provide volunteers with practical information concerning their volunteer position so they can carry out their duties and responsibilities associated with their position of leadership. Each Quick Start module emphasizes the most important things that a particular volunteer must do to be effective in the position. In addition to the Quick Start module, a number of references are provided to assist the volunteer in performing his/her duties as an IEEE volunteer. These references, located in the Learning Library on the CLE site, expand the volunteer's knowledge and understanding in a number of areas. Professional Development Training: This training consists of a number of training modules that focus on professional development. Topics cover soft skills such as leadership, communications, and management skills. These training modules are located in the Learning Library area on the CLE site. For more detailed information about the IEEE CLE, please visit the IEEE CLE Learning Library. |


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice and the state Department of Environmental Protection have sued 17 companies in an attempt to recover some of the costs of cleaning up a Superfund site about 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
According to the complaint filed Friday, the site was run by Reactive Metals and Alloys Corp., or Remacor, which processed magnesium shavings and scrap until a 2005 fire destroyed facilities there.
Beginning in 2006, the DEP and the U.S. EPA removed six million pounds of the waste from the 45 acre site at a cost of about $10 million. The companies named in the lawsuit provided magnesium to Remacor.


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Burger's Surf's Up Cafe
5401 Coastal Hwy.
Every Thursday:
Big Ass 80's Party With The Bigler
Buxy's Salty Dog
28th St. & Coastal Hwy.
Sunday, Oct. 23: Gates Open 11 a.m.
Charlie's Bayside Restaurant
Rte. 1 & Maryland Ave.,
Fenwick Island
Friday, Oct. 21: TBA
Clarion Hotel
10100 Coastal Hwy.
Ocean Club:
Friday, Oct. 21 & Saturday, Oct. 22: Rhondels
De Lazy lizard
1st Street In De Bay
Friday, Oct. 21:
Tim Cyphers Duo, 5-9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22: Rick & Regina
Dead freddies
64th St. & the Bay
Friday, Oct. 21: DJ Rupe, 9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22: DJ Crush, 9 p.m.
Fager's Island
60th St. in the Bay
Friday, Oct. 21:
DJ Hook, 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22:
Kevin Poole, 5:30 p.m.;
DJ Robcee, 6 p.m.; DJ Groove, 9 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 21:
Electric Velvet, 10 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22:
Bruce In The USA, Springstein Tribute Band, 10 p.m.
Every Sunday: Jazz Brunch
with Everett Spells Project,
11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Globe, The
12 Broad St., Berlin
Friday, Oct. 21:
Bryan Clark Sings Sinatra and Much More, 7-10 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22:
Hot Buttered Nuggets, 7-10 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 23:
TBA, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Greene Turtle North
11601 Coastal Hwy.
Every Friday: DJ Wax
Every Saturday: DJ Wood
Greene Turtle West
Rte. 611, West Ocean City
Friday, Oct. 21: DJ Soulfinger, 5-8 p.m.; DJ Skip Dixxon, 9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22:
Tim Cyphers Duo
Hotel Atlantic
2 North Main St., Berlin
Every Friday: Elsworth Wheatley
Every Monday: Earl Beardsley
House of welsh
1106 Coastal Hwy., Fenwick Island
Every Friday:
DJ Norm, 3-6 p.m.
Every Friday, Saturday & Sunday:
Tony Vega, 6-10 p.m.
Every Saturday: Tom Lowe, 4-6 p.m.
Every Monday:
DJ Norm with DCHDC, 6-9 p.m.
Every Wednesday:
Bob Hughes, 6-9 p.m.
Every Thursday:
Tom Lowe, 6-9 p.m.
Lobster Shanty
Rte. 54, Fenwick Island
Every Thursday:
Kevin Poole & Joe Mama, 6 p.m.
M.R. Ducks
311 Talbot St., Ocean City
Duck Parties, 4-9 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22:
Micky fins
in the West Ocean City Fishing Center, Rte. 50
Every Friday:
Darin Engh, 4 p.m.
Every Saturday:
Blake Haley, 4 p.m.
Ocean view grille & BBQ
16th. St. On The Boardwalk
Friday, Oct. 21:
Blake Haley
Pit and Pub
28th St. & Coastal Hwy.
Friday, Oct. 21: Bryan Russo, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22: Galaxy Collective
Every Thursday:
Locals' Night with DJ Jeremy
Pour house, The
501 S. Baltimore Ave.,Corner Of Wicomico & Baltimore Ave.
Friday, Oct. 21: Electric Co.
Saturday, Oct. 22:
Rob Fahey, "Raised On The Radio"
Every Tuesday:
Poker Night, 7 p.m.
Every Wednesday: Open Mic Night with Livin' The Dream, 9:30 p.m.
Every Thursday: DJ Rupe, 9 p.m.
49th St. & Coastal Hwy.
Friday, Oct. 21:
John McNutt Band, Rich Whiskey, Goodman Fiske & DJs
Saturday, Oct. 22:
Rew Smith, Zion Reggae Band, The Benderz & DJs
Every Thursday: Live DJ Dance Party
Smitty McGee's
Rte. 54, West Fenwick Ireland, Del.
Every Friday:
Randy Lee Ashcraft
& The Saltwater Cowboys
Every Wednesday:
Karaoke with DJ Whiplash, 10 p.m.
Every Thursday:
Randy Lee Ashcraft, 8 p.m.
Steer inn Tavern
10514 Racetrack Rd., Berlin
Friday, Oct. 21:
The Chest Pains
Saturday, Oct. 22:
The Gas House Gorillas
Every Wednesday: Karaoke with Hey Mick, 8 p.m.
Every Thursday: DJ Marla, 8 p.m.


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Not long before he went to the altar of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last month and put a pistol to his head and killed himself, the French historian Dominique Venner was contemplating the contagion of revolt that occasionally sweeps around the globe like a pandemic. "How are revolutions born?" he asked.
Despite Venner's radical right-wing background, the principles he listed in a blog post were not so much ideological as sociological. And as we look at the tumult in the streets from Brazil to Turkey, the ferocious politics of post-uprising Egypt and the sucking wound of the Syrian civil war, I'm struck by a maxim in Venner's essay that's so floridly French, it's hard to utter, unless you're sitting at Café de Flore in Paris with a cup of espresso and a Gauloise. "The effervescence," Venner wrote, "is not the revolution."
Effervescence may mean fizz as in English, but in French it also means excitement or turmoil, and effervescence often wells up when a regime—often caught completely by surprise—suddenly has to face several different conflicts. The fizz is the screw-the-system, we're-all-in-this-together, down-with-whoever, up-with-whatever part of the process that takes place when the government starts to lose its grip on power and disorder becomes endemic.
You see that in Brazil right now, where a million people turned out to protest Thursday. There was violence, sure, and one person died, but there was samba, too, and the kind of adrenaline rush that comes from massive collective excitement. A lot of people find the effervescence fun in its early stages. But as Chairman Mao famously said, a revolution is not a dinner party. Effervescence doesn't become a revolution until it's organized and led by a party or a person, and then things start to get really serious and can get really ugly.
"I think we desperately need this, that we've been needing this for a very, very long time," a clothing salesman told the Associated Press in Rio de Janeiro as throngs of protesters poured through the streets. At 63, he had lived long enough to see several Latin American revolutions, and he offered an analysis that suggested the Catch-22 inherent in all revolts: "On the one hand we need some sort of leadership; on the other we don't want this to be compromised by being affiliated with any political party."
The history of revolutions is, in fact, full of people who rode to power on a wave of popular sentiment, then installed themselves as tyrants. The bloody effervescence of the Bastille gave way to Robespierre and then Napoleon; Stalin crushed Trotsky. (George Orwell's Animal Farm gives as good a blueprint as any for the way this cynical process works.) And we've seen it happen recently in the Arab world. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt commandeered the enthusiasm of Tahrir Square to put itself in power; the al Qaeda–linked Jabhat al-Nusra has channeled the moral outrage on the streets of Syria to serve its own violent designs.
But the fizz in Brazil and Turkey has yet to go flat, and the excitement and turmoil may well continue to spread across the globe.
What are the "root causes" of all this ferment? Is it the depredations of unfettered capitalism that make people the servants of the market rather than the other way around? Is it a human lust for freedom? Is it Twitter? Or, at the end of the day, are all politics local, even revolutionary politics? In fact the answer could be yes to each of those questions, but even all those factors combined won't necessarily lead to full-blown revolutions.
If you try to impose a left-right analysis, moreover, you'll wind up with your head spinning. Left-wingers often identify with beleaguered workers and old socialist or even communist revolutionary movements, but a lot of the effervescence today is on the right and far right.
The Tea Party in the United States still operates within the system, but its base is full of fizz and is a political force. The Occupy movement on the left looks anemic by comparison. The huge protests in France over the last few months were largely the work of Catholic organizers and a loose constellation of conservative forces opposed to gay marriage, gay adoption—and just about anything else proposed by the current Socialist government in Paris. The most intense revolutionary rhetoric across Europe right now is on the far, far right, with the rise of a crypto-fascist party in Greece the most conspicuous example.
The protesters and rioters in Brazil may be from the classes for whom a 10-cent rise in the bus fare is suddenly unbearable, but they are lashing out at a government that grew from working-class roots. In Turkey, the massive outpouring of emotion on the streets comes from minorities, as the embattled and defiant Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insists. But that's just the point. They feel their country—and especially their cosmopolitan metropolis of Istanbul—slipping under the tyranny of a majority that will squeeze them out of a future.
Revolutions do not start simply because people are fed up with the status quo, in fact. Societies are not static. The uprisings begin when people feel cheated by change. And that can happen across the ideological spectrum. It can feed the fury of black-bloc anarchists and the rage of neo-Nazi gangs. It can bring mothers with their babies in strollers out onto the streets and send marchers protected only with handkerchiefs into the clouds of tear gas and the torrents of water cannons.
Since 2011, when the so-called Arab Spring began, pundits have been looking for historical precedents: the fervor of 1989 that brought down the Berlin Wall and the Soviet empire; the student-led revolts of 1968 that swept from the Left Bank in Paris to blood-drenched Tlatelolco in Mexico City and from Prague to Tokyo. Columnist and Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman recently looked way, way back and wrote about his sympathy with the Luddites, wool workers who attacked the machines putting them out of jobs in 1786 and denounced the system that gave them no place else to go.
But the mother of all contagious uprisings was the wave of revolutionary fervor that swept Europe in 1848. The events of 165 years ago in France, Italy, Austria, Prussia, and elsewhere are mostly forgotten by modern Americans, but "the parallels with contemporary globalization are very obvious," says Nottingham University's David Laven, the author of the forthcoming Restoration and Risorgimento: Italy 1796–1870. The people dying at the barricades were artisans who'd seen their livelihoods taken away by new industries and organizations. They were students whose families had made enormous sacrifices to get them good educations, only to discover the promised jobs were not to be had.
Today, says Laven, there's the same dislocation, the same glut of education and shortage of employment in many of the countries experiencing unrest. "Without the right connections, you stand not a hope in hell of getting a job in Italy or Greece," says Laven. People start to revolt, he says, when they feel they've been done out of "something they thought was their right."
When governments hesitate in the face of confrontation, unsure whether to institute reforms or smash their opposition, the effervescence grows. "Revolutions take place when there is sufficient repression to create martyrs," says Laven, "but not sufficient repression to nip the revolutions in the bud." The proximate causes of rebellions are not so much long-term structural problems, says Laven, but "short-term triggers" that set off explosive emotions.
The self-immolation of a fruit vendor in Tunisia brought popular anger to a boil in his country in 2011; the savage torture, mutilation, and murder of little boys in Syria for the crime of writing graffiti provoked the protests that have now become a civil war; and the bulldozers about to level a park and build a shopping center in Istanbul sparked the public rage that has shaken the Turkish government to its foundation.
But those who dream of revolutions, or who would plot them, should know that they are hard to trigger on purpose. Many a protester has burned himself alive without bringing on an Arab Spring. There was, really, nothing new about torture and murder by the Syrian regime, but there was never before an uprising like this as a result.
When the 78-year-old Venner walked into Notre Dame de Paris with his gun in his pocket, he also carried a note. "I believe it is necessary to sacrifice myself to break through the lethargy that overwhelms us," he wrote. He could not bear the way France and Europe are changing, could not endure the threat of massive immigration. He had seen the massive anti-government rallies and thought a critical moment had come. By giving up of his life, he could help trigger more protests, a movement, a revolution.
But the Venner suicide only made headlines for a day or so. The anti-gay-marriage protests have subsided, and so has the talk of a new French revolution. Summer is here, people are thinking about vacation, and the fizz has fizzled. France will have to wait for another martyr, another trigger, and that may never come. But other countries may yet find plenty of their own.


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Portland By Cycle to Tour Stormwater Gardens and Bioswales this Weekend
Nov 15, 2012 at 12:56 PM 0 Comments
Join Bureau of Transportation and Environmental Services staff on a FREE tour of street features that increase safety for travelers and decrease the load on our sewer system – plus see a beautiful stormwater garden. We've done these tours in the summer for several years - now, with any luck, we'll get to see the swales in action!
Stormwater Gardens and Swales, Oh My! Bike Tour
Saturday, November 17, 2012
10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
Meet at the Hawthorne Hostel, SE Hawthorne Blvd & 31st
The ride will span a total of 8 miles. No pre-registration needed but helmets are required. Special for this ride: 1) staff from the Bureau of Environmental Services along to explain all the things we're seeing; 2) at the end of the ride there's an optional tour of the Hostel's Eco-Roof.
Portland By Cycle Rides offer a supportive setting for adults new to cycling, new to the area, or just getting back on the bike. Easy pace, no one left behind. The Autumn Series rides help you enjoy riding in all weather. Get that great "I just rode my bike" feeling year-round! We'll ride rain or shine – always with smiles for our umbrellas!
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The tput
command allows shell scripts to do things like clear the
screen, underline text, and center text no matter how wide the screen
is. To do these things, it translates the terminal-independent name of
a terminal capability into its actual value for the terminal type being
takes as an argument the name of a Unix System V terminfo
capability, which it translates into the equivalent termcap capability
name (see section Capabilities, for a list of the equivalencies).
Terminfo is a database that is similar to termcap but which has
different capability names and is stored in a different format. The GNU
command takes a terminfo name as an argument to make it
compatible with the Unix System V tput
There are three types of terminfo (and termcap) capabilities: string, Boolean, and numeric. String capabilities either cause a special effect on the terminal when they are displayed or are the value sent by a special key on the terminal (the latter type are probably of no use in shell scripts). Numeric and Boolean capabilities give information about the terminal such as how many columns wide it is or whether whether it has a meta key. See section Output and Exit Status, for more detailed information on the three types of capabilities.
The format of the tput
command is illustrated below.
tput [options] capability [parameter ...] tput [options] longname tput [options] init tput [options] reset
GNU tput
takes the following options:
[-T terminal-type] [--terminal=terminal-type] [-t] [--termcap] [-S] [--standard-input] [-V] [--version]
Here is an example of how to clear the terminal screen using tput
tput clear
The format of the tput
command is illustrated below.
tput [options] capability [parameter ...] tput [options] longname tput [options] init tput [options] reset
GNU tput
takes the following options:
[-T terminal-type] [--terminal=terminal-type] [-t] [--termcap] [-S] [--standard-input] [-V] [--version]
Some string capabilities accept parameters, such as the number of lines to delete or the column to move to. These parameters are specified on the command line following the capability name. They are always numbers.
by default accepts termcap name if the capability
a user specifies is not a terminfo name. This option tells
not to try terminfo names and look up only termcap
to read a sequence of capabilities
and parameters from the standard input. Only string capabilities
can be used in this mode.
When `longname' is specified, tput
displays the
long descriptive name for the terminal type.
When `init' is specified, tput
sends the
initialization strings for the terminal. If the terminal's tab
width is other than 8, and it cannot be reset, the tab expansion
in the tty driver is turned on. Otherwise, tab width is reset to
8 and the tab expansion is turned off.
When `reset' is specified, tput
sends the
reset strings for the terminal and then follows the same
initialization sequence as tput
Below are some example uses of tput
. See section Capabilities, for
a complete list of the functions that tput
can cause terminals to
perform. Note that not all terminals can perform any given function.
See section Yet More Examples, for some more complex samples of tput
The following command moves the cursor to row 10, column 30 of the screen:
tput cup 10 30
The following command makes the cursor invisible:
tput civis
The following command makes the cursor visible again:
tput cnorm
The following command deletes 10 lines below and including the one on which the cursor is positioned:
tput dl 10
The tput
command produces different kinds of output for each of
the three types of terminal capabilities: string, numeric, and Boolean.
If the terminfo capability given on the command line is a string
capability, tput
displays its value and exits with a status of 0.
If the capability is not defined for the terminal type being used,
produces no output and exits with a status of 1.
If the capability is a numeric capability, tput
displays its
value (an integer). If the capability is not defined for the terminal
type being used, tput
displays the value `-1'. The exit
status is always 0 for numeric capabilities, unless an error occurs
(see section Error Messages for a complete list of the possible exit status
If the capability is a Boolean capability, tput
produces no
output and exits with status 0 if the capability is defined for the
terminal type being used, or status 1 if the capability is not defined.
See section `Definitions of the Terminal Capabilities' in Termcap,
for a more detailed description of termcap capabilities.
The values of numeric capabilities should be saved into shell
variables so they can be used later without having to run tput
again. Here is how it can be done:
For the Bourne, Bourne-again, and Korn shells: To set an environment variable: COLUMNS=`tput cols` export COLUMNS To set a local variable: tabwidth=`tput it` For the C shell: To set an environment variable: setenv COLUMNS `tput cols` To set a local variable: set tabwidth = `tput it`
The values of string capabilities can be saved in shell variables in the
same way, then displayed later using the echo
command. Since
is built into most shells, it runs more quickly than
does. However, using echo
instead of tput
display string values can cause problems for capabilities that use
padding, because null padding characters cannot be passed as arguments
to commands, including echo
Here are some more advanced examples of using tput
; most involve
some shell programming. Because the C shell's flow control (decision
making) constructs differ from those of the other shells, these
examples do not work under the C shell.
The following sequence of commands prints `I am infalible' and then crosses it out on terminals that can overstrike, and prints `I am on strike' on terminals that cannot.
if tput os; then echo 'I am infalible\r- -- ---------' else echo 'I am on strike' fi
The following example is a shell script that centers a line of text
given as command line arguments. An alternative approach would be to
have tput
send the `rep' terminfo capability to print the
multiple spaces instead of using the while
COLUMNS=`tput cols` export COLUMNS # Get screen width. echo "$@" | awk ' { spaces = ('$COLUMNS' - length) / 2 while (spaces-- > 0) printf (" ") print }'
The following commands cause the terminal to save the current cursor position, print `Hello, World' centered in the screen in reverse video, then return to the original cursor position.
COLUMNS=`tput cols` LINES=`tput lines` line=`expr $LINES / 2` column=`expr \( $COLUMNS - 6 \) / 2` tput sc tput cup $line $column tput rev echo 'Hello, World' tput sgr0 tput rc
The middle three lines of the above example can also be written using `--standard-input'.
tput --standard-input <<EOF sc cup $line $column rev EOF
Name Termcap Description Equiv. am am Has automatic margins bw bw `cub1' wraps from column 0 to last column chts HC Cursor is hard to see da da Display may be retained above screen db db Display may be retained below screen eo eo Can erase overstrikes with a blank eslok es Using escape on status line is ok gn gn Generic line type (e.g., `dialup', `switch') hc hc Hardcopy terminal hs hs Has a status line hz hz Hazeltine; cannot print tildes in in Insert mode distinguishes nulls km km Has a meta key (a shift that sets parity bit) mc5i 5i Data sent to printer does not echo on screen mir mi Safe to move while in insert mode msgr ms Safe to move in standout modes npc NP No pad character is needed nrrmc NR `smcup' does not reverse `rmcup' nxon nx Padding does not work; xon/xoff is required os os Overstrikes ul ul Underline character overstrikes xenl xn Newline ignored after 80 columns (Concept) xhp xs Standout is not erased by overwriting (HP) xon xo Uses xon/xoff handshaking xsb xb Beehive (f1=escape, f2=ctrl-c) xt xt Tabs are destructive, magic `smso' (t1061)
Name Termcap Description Equiv. cols co Number of columns in a line it it Width of initial tab settings lh lh Number of rows in each label lines li Number of lines on screen or page lm lm Lines of memory if > `lines'; 0 means varies lw lw Number of columns in each label nlab Nl Number of labels on screen (start at 1) pb pb Lowest baud rate where padding is needed vt vt Virtual terminal number (CB/Unix) wsl ws Number of columns in status line xmc sg Number of blanks left by `smso' or `rmso'
In the following table, `(P)' following an explanation means
that the capability takes one or more parameters (and is evaluated by
the tparam
function, or in the case of `cup',
); `(*)' means that padding may be based on the
number of lines affected; and `#n' refers to the `n'th
Name Termcap Description Equiv. acsc ac Graphic character set pairs aAbBcC - default vt100 bel bl Ring bell (beep) blink mb Begin blinking mode bold md Begin double intensity mode cbt bt Back tab civis vi Make cursor invisible clear cl Clear screen (*) cmdch CC Settable command character in prototype cnorm ve Make cursor normal (undo `cvvis' & `civis)' cr cr Carriage return (*) csr cs Change scrolling region to lines #1 through #2 (P) cub LE Move cursor left #1 spaces (P) cub1 le Move cursor left one space cud DO Move cursor down #1 lines (P*) cud1 do Move cursor down one line cuf RI Move cursor right #1 spaces (P*) cuf1 nd Move cursor right one space cup cm Move cursor to row #1, column #2 of screen (P) cuu UP Move cursor up #1 lines (P*) cuu1 up Move cursor up one line cvvis vs Make cursor very visible dch DC Delete #1 characters (P*) dch1 dc Delete one character (*) dim mh Begin half intensity mode dl DL Delete #1 lines (P*) dl1 dl Delete one line (*) dsl ds Disable status line ech ec Erase #1 characters (P) ed cd Clear to end of display (*) el ce Clear to end of line el1 cb Clear to beginning of line, inclusive enacs eA Enable alternate character set ff ff Form feed for hardcopy terminal (*) flash vb Visible bell (must not move cursor) fsl fs Return from status line hd hd Move cursor down one-half line home ho Home cursor (if no `cup') hpa ch Move cursor to column #1 (P) ht ta Tab to next 8 space hardware tab stop hts st Set a tab in all rows, current column hu hu Move cursor up one-half line ich IC Insert #1 blank characters (P*) ich1 ic Insert one blank character if if Name of file containing initialization string il AL Add #1 new blank lines (P*) il1 al Add one new blank line (*) ind sf Scroll forward (up) one line indn SF Scroll forward #1 lines (P) invis mk Begin invisible text mode ip ip Insert pad after character inserted (*) iprog iP Path of program for initialization is1 i1 Terminal initialization string is2 is Terminal initialization string is3 i3 Terminal initialization string kBEG &9 Shifted beginning key kCAN &0 Shifted cancel key kCMD *1 Shifted command key kCPY *2 Shifted copy key kCRT *3 Shifted create key kDC *4 Shifted delete char key kDL *5 Shifted delete line key kEND *7 Shifted end key kEOL *8 Shifted clear line key kEXT *9 Shifted exit key kFND *0 Shifted find key kHLP #1 Shifted help key kHOM #2 Shifted home key kIC #3 Shifted input key kLFT #4 Shifted left arrow key kMOV %b Shifted move key kMSG %a Shifted message key kNXT %c Shifted next key kOPT %d Shifted options key kPRT %f Shifted print key kPRV %e Shifted prev key kRDO %g Shifted redo key kRES %j Shifted resume key kRIT %i Shifted right arrow kRPL %h Shifted replace key kSAV !1 Shifted save key kSPD !2 Shifted suspend key kUND !3 Shifted undo key ka1 K1 Upper left of keypad ka3 K3 Upper right of keypad kb2 K2 Center of keypad kbeg @1 Beginning key kbs kb Backspace key kc1 K4 Lower left of keypad kc3 K5 Lower right of keypad kcan @2 Cancel key kcbt kB Back tab key kclo @3 Close key kclr kC Clear screen or erase key kcmd @4 Command key kcpy @5 Copy key kcrt @6 Create key kctab kt Clear tab key kcub1 kl Left arrow key kcud1 kd Down arrow key kcuf1 kr Right arrow key kcuu1 ku Up arrow key kdch1 kD Delete character key kdl1 kL Delete line key ked kS Clear to end of screen key kel kE Clear to end of line key kend @7 End key kent @8 Enter/send key (unreliable) kext @9 Exit key kf0 k0 Function key f0 kf1 k1 Function key f1 kf10 k; Function key f10 kf11 F1 Function key f11 kf12 F2 Function key f12 kf13 F3 Function key f13 kf14 F4 Function key f14 kf15 F5 Function key f15 kf16 F6 Function key f16 kf17 F7 Function key f17 kf18 F8 Function key f18 kf19 F9 Function key f19 kf2 k2 Function key f2 kf20 FA Function key f20 kf21 FB Function key f21 kf22 FC Function key f22 kf23 FD Function key f23 kf24 FE Function key f24 kf25 FF Function key f25 kf26 FG Function key f26 kf27 FH Function key f27 kf28 FI Function key f28 kf29 FJ Function key f29 kf3 k3 Function key f3 kf30 FK Function key f30 kf31 FL Function key f31 kf32 FM Function key f32 kf33 FN Function key f13 kf34 FO Function key f34 kf35 FP Function key f35 kf36 FQ Function key f36 kf37 FR Function key f37 kf38 FS Function key f38 kf39 FT Function key f39 kf4 k4 Function key f4 kf40 FU Function key f40 kf41 FV Function key f41 kf42 FW Function key f42 kf43 FX Function key f43 kf44 FY Function key f44 kf45 FZ Function key f45 kf46 Fa Function key f46 kf47 Fb Function key f47 kf48 Fc Function key f48 kf49 Fd Function key f49 kf5 k5 Function key f5 kf50 Fe Function key f50 kf51 Ff Function key f51 kf52 Fg Function key f52 kf53 Fh Function key f53 kf54 Fi Function key f54 kf55 Fj Function key f55 kf56 Fk Function key f56 kf57 Fl Function key f57 kf58 Fm Function key f58 kf59 Fn Function key f59 kf6 k6 Function key f6 kf60 Fo Function key f60 kf61 Fp Function key f61 kf62 Fq Function key f62 kf63 Fr Function key f63 kf7 k7 Function key f7 kf8 k8 Function key f8 kf9 k9 Function key f9 kfnd @0 Find key khlp %1 Help key khome kh Home key khts kT Set tab key kich1 kI Ins char/enter ins mode key kil1 kA Insert line key kind kF Scroll forward/down key kll kH Home down key kmov %4 Move key kmrk %2 Mark key kmsg %3 Message key knp kN Next page key knxt %5 Next object key kopn %6 Open key kopt %7 Options key kpp kP Previous page key kprt %9 Print or copy key kprv %8 Previous object key krdo %0 Redo key kref &1 Reference key kres &5 Resume key krfr &2 Refresh key kri kR Scroll backward/up key krmir kMrmir
in insert mode krpl &3 Replace key krst &4 Restart key ksav &6 Save key kslt *6 Select key kspd &7 Suspend key ktbc ka Clear all tabs key kund &8 Undo key lf0 l0 Label on function key f0 if not `f0' lf1 l1 Label on function key f1 if not `f1' lf10 la Label on function key f10 if not `f10' lf2 l2 Label on function key f2 if not `f2' lf3 l3 Label on function key f3 if not `f3' lf4 l4 Label on function key f4 if not `f4' lf5 l5 Label on function key f5 if not `f5' lf6 l6 Label on function key f6 if not `f6' lf7 l7 Label on function key f7 if not `f7' lf8 l8 Label on function key f8 if not `f8' lf9 l9 Label on function key f9 if not `f9' ll ll Go to last line, first column (if no `cup') mc0 ps Print screen contents mc4 pf Turn printer off mc5 po Turn printer on mc5p pO Turn printer on for #1 bytes (P) mgc MC Clear left and right soft margins mrcup CM Move cursor to row #1, column #2 of memory (P) nel nw Newline (like cr followed by lf) pad pc Pad character (rather than nul) pfkey pk Program function key #1 to type string #2 (P) pfloc pl Program function key #1 to execute string #2 (P) pfx px Program function key #1 to transmit string #2 (P) pln pn Program label #1 to show string #2 (P) prot mp Begin protected mode rc rc Restore cursor to position of last `sc' rep rp Repeat character #1, #2 times (P*) rev mr Begin reverse video mode rf rf Name of file containing reset string rfi RF Send next input character (for ptys) ri sr Scroll backward (down) one line rin SR Scroll backward #1 lines (P) rmacs ae End alternate character set rmam RA Turn off automatic margins rmcup te String to end programs that use `cup' rmdc ed End delete mode rmir ei End insert mode rmkx ke End keypad transmit mode rmln LF Turn off soft labels rmm mo End meta mode rmp rP Like `ip' but when in replace mode rmso se End standout mode rmul ue End underscore mode rmxon RX Turn off xon/xoff handshaking rs1 r1 Reset terminal to sane modes rs2 r2 Reset terminal to sane modes rs3 r3 Reset terminal to sane modes sc sc Save cursor position sgr sa Define video attributes #1 through #9 (P) sgr0 me Turn off all attributes smacs as Begin alternate character set smam SA Turn on automatic margins smcup ti String to begin programs that use `cup' smdc dm Begin delete mode smgl ML Set soft left margin to #1 (P) smgr MR Set soft right margin to #1 (P) smir im Begin insert mode smkx ks Begin keypad transmit mode smln LO Turn on soft labels smm mm Begin meta mode (8th bit set) smso so Begin standout mode smul us Begin underscore mode smxon SX Turn on xon/xoff handshaking tbc ct Clear all tab stops tsl ts Go to status line, column #1 (P) uc uc Underscore one character and move past it vpa cv Move cursor to row #1 (P) wind wi Set window to lines #1-#2, columns #3-#4 (P) xoffc XF xoff character xonc XN xon character
displays various error messages if problems occur. In
addition, it exits with one of the following status values:
was given invalid arguments.
: Setting Terminal Tabs
The tabs
command is used to specify and set hardware tab
stops on terminals that have remotely-settable tab stops.
The tabs
command is used to specify and set hardware tab
stops on terminals that have remotely-settable tab stops.
tabs [options] tab-specification
The options supported by GNU tabs
-T termtype
and exit.
and exit.
GNU tabs
accepts the following types of tab specification:
-C code
--F filename
and :>
on that line, find
a parameter that begins with t
, and then use it as tab
specification. If any of the above steps fails, set tab stops to
every 8 columns. The second and the third formats are useful if
the name of the file conflicts with one of the long options
supportred by GNU tabs
GNU tabs
supports the following "canned" specifications:
To set tab stops for editing FORTRAN programs on
an xterm
, use the following tabs
tabs -f --terminal=xterm
Another example: a source file of FORTRAN program may contain its own tab specification on its first line:
C <: t1,7,11,15,19,23,72 :>
Before editing this file, the tabs
command can be used to set
tab stops to columns this file expects:
tabs --Sample.f
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Not everyone gets snow. Not everyone that gets it likes to take their kids out in it. I came across a neat recipe for "snow" on Pinterest. But it makes for a great sensory play activity!
Sensory Play
{By the way, if you are not on Pinterest you should be! Allie's stuff is all over the place around there, too. ;)} You can find the original post about it here on Flights of Whimsy. She calls it cloud dough, I call it snow.
I made half of the recommended amount she posted. So for my version, you will need:
- 4 cups of flour
- 1/2 cup of baby oil
Yes, baby oil. Your room is going to fill with the sweetest little smell and take you back to milk breath (without the sleepless nights, of course).
You and your child can count out the scoops it takes to equal 4 cups. Go ahead and let them dump it in.
Now measure out 1/2 cup of baby oil. Your child can easily pour this right on the mountain of flour.
First, my daughter stirred with a spatula. Then she mixed it with her hands because it will clump a little. It is very easy to break up and continue mixing, though.
The texture is so nice. If your children have played with Moon Dough, it is very similar. It is light and fluffy. The scent is very relaxing. This is a fantastic sensory project. We mixed ours in a bowl but moved it to a bin to play.
It molds easily. We used small bundt cake pans to make mounds and igloos. But the favorite was snowballs, which we threw into the mixing bowl to watch them shatter.
The dust from this does initially stick to your hands, but it brushes off remarkably easy.
Kim is a contributing writer for No Time For Flash Cards, a mom to a toddler, a preschooler, and a foster parent, too. She juggles her day by trying out fun activities and crafts with the kids. After all, she is just a big kid herself. See what she has been up to over at Mom Tried It.


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Although this week's Restitution and Repatriation conference at DePaul was washed out by Hurricane Sandy, another terrific event is on the horizon next week. "Art Law Day" at New York University, hosted by the Appraisers Association of America, will be held on November 9, 2012 at NYU's Kimmel Center. The condensed schedule from the event's website is below. Wishing everyone in New York continued safety, we hope to see you there.
Art Law Day at NYU Next Friday, November 9, 2012
Topics: John Silberman Associates, Holland Dunn, Yuri Yanchyshyn, Jack Flam, Aurora Advisory Group, Karin Gross, Magdalena Dabrowski, AAA, John Cahill, Donn Zaretzky, Hurricane Sandy, Inc., Ella Newman, McLaughlin & Stern, Art Law Day, LLP, Jane C. H. Jacob, Peter Stern, ARIS, Ralph Lerner, Withers Bergman, Michael Ward Stout, Appraisal, ETN Associates, NYU, Events, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies LLP, Dorit Straus, Nicola Walter, Elizabeth von Habsburg, Jacob Fine Art, Ron Fiamma, Appraisers Association of America, J.P. Morgan Securities, Restitution and Repatriation, IFAR, Kimmel Center, Dedalus Foundation, connoisseurship, Christiane Fischer, Winston Art Group, Gloria Velandia, Sharon Flescher, Judith Bresler


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Daily Readings for Saturday, March 4, 2023
- Morning Psalms 43; 149
- First Reading Deuteronomy 11:18-28
- Second Reading Hebrews 5:1-10
- Gospel Reading John 4:1-26
- Evening Psalms 31; 143
Morning Psalm 43
1 Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause
against an ungodly people;
from those who are deceitful and unjust
deliver me!
2 For you are the God in whom I take refuge;
why have you cast me off?
Why must I walk about mournfully
because of the oppression of the enemy?
3 O send out your light and your truth;
let them lead me;
let them bring me to your holy hill
and to your dwelling.
4 Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God my exceeding joy;
and I will praise you with the harp,
O God, my God.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
my help and my God.
Morning Psalm 149
1 Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise in the assembly of the faithful.
2 Let Israel be glad in its Maker;
let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.
3 Let them praise his name with dancing,
making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.
4 For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with victory.
5 Let the faithful exult in glory;
let them sing for joy on their couches.
6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats
and two-edged swords in their hands,
7 to execute vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,
8 to bind their kings with fetters
and their nobles with chains of iron,
9 to execute on them the judgment decreed.
This is glory for all his faithful ones.
Praise the Lord!
First Reading Deuteronomy 11:18-28
18You shall put these words of mine in your heart and soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and fix them as an emblem on your forehead. 19Teach them to your children, talking about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. 20Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates, 21so that your days and the days of your children may be multiplied in the land that the LORD swore to your ancestors to give them, as long as the heavens are above the earth.
22If you will diligently observe this entire commandment that I am commanding you, loving the LORD your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, 3then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations larger and mightier than yourselves. 24Every place on which you set foot shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the river Euphrates, to the Western Sea. 25No one will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you on all the land on which you set foot, as he promised you.
26See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: 27the blessing, if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God that I am commanding you today; 28and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn from the way that I am commanding you today, to follow other gods that you have not known.
Second Reading Hebrews 5:1-10
1Every high priest chosen from among mortals is put in charge of things pertaining to God on their behalf, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is subject to weakness; 3and because of this he must offer sacrifice for his own sins as well as for those of the people. 4And one does not presume to take this honor, but takes it only when called by God, just as Aaron was.
5So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest, but was appointed by the one who said to him,
"You are my Son,
today I have begotten you";
6as he says also in another place,
"You are a priest forever,
according to the order of Melchizedek."
7In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered; 9and having been made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him, 10having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Gospel Reading John 4:1-26
1Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John" — 2although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized — 3he left Judea and started back to Galilee. 4But he had to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." 8(His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." 11The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?" 13Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life." 15The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."
16Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back." 17The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; 18for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!" 19The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." 21Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." 25The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us." 26Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking to you."
Evening Psalm 31
1 In you, O LORD, I seek refuge;
do not let me ever be put to shame;
in your righteousness deliver me.
2 Incline your ear to me;
rescue me speedily.
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a strong fortress to save me.
3 You are indeed my rock and my fortress;
for your name's sake lead me and guide me,
4 take me out of the net that is hidden for me,
for you are my refuge.
5 Into your hand I commit my spirit;
you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.
6 You hate those who pay regard to worthless idols,
but I trust in the LORD.
7 I will exult and rejoice in your steadfast love,
because you have seen my affliction;
you have taken heed of my adversities,
8 and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy;
you have set my feet in a broad place.
9 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;
my eye wastes away from grief,
my soul and body also.
10 For my life is spent with sorrow,
and my years with sighing;
my strength fails because of my misery,
and my bones waste away.
11 I am the scorn of all my adversaries,
a horror to my neighbors,
an object of dread to my acquaintances;
those who see me in the street flee from me.
12 I have passed out of mind like one who is dead;
I have become like a broken vessel.
13 For I hear the whispering of many —
terror all around! —
as they scheme together against me,
as they plot to take my life.
14 But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, "You are my God."
15 My times are in your hand;
deliver me from the hand of my enemies and persecutors.
16 Let your face shine upon your servant;
save me in your steadfast love.
17 Do not let me be put to shame, O LORD,
for I call on you;
let the wicked be put to shame;
let them go dumbfounded to Sheol.
18 Let the lying lips be stilled
that speak insolently against the righteous
with pride and contempt.
19 O how abundant is your goodness
that you have laid up for those who fear you,
and accomplished for those who take refuge in you,
in the sight of everyone!
20 In the shelter of your presence you hide them
from human plots;
you hold them safe under your shelter
from contentious tongues.
21 Blessed be the LORD,
for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me
when I was beset as a city under siege.
22 I had said in my alarm,
"I am driven far from your sight."
But you heard my supplications
when I cried out to you for help.
23 Love the LORD, all you his saints.
The LORD preserves the faithful,
but abundantly repays the one who acts haughtily.
24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage,
all you who wait for the LORD.
Evening Psalm 143
1 Hear my prayer, O LORD;
give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness;
answer me in your righteousness.
2 Do not enter into judgment with your servant,
for no one living is righteous before you.
3 For the enemy has pursued me,
crushing my life to the ground,
making me sit in darkness like those long dead.
4 Therefore my spirit faints within me;
my heart within me is appalled.
5 I remember the days of old,
I think about all your deeds,
I meditate on the works of your hands.
6 I stretch out my hands to you;
my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah
7 Answer me quickly, O LORD;
my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me,
or I shall be like those who go down to the Pit.
8 Let me hear of your steadfast love in the morning,
for in you I put my trust.
Teach me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
9 Save me, O LORD, from my enemies;
I have fled to you for refuge.
10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God.
Let your good spirit lead me
on a level path.
11 For your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life.
In your righteousness bring me out of trouble.
12 In your steadfast love cut off my enemies,
and destroy all my adversaries,
for I am your servant.


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Original post: https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/june-2019/gretas-very-corporate-childrens-crusade/
The family's story is that Greta launched a one-girl "school strike" at the Swedish parliament on the morning of August 20, 2018. Ingmar Rentzhog, founder of the social media platform We Have No Time, happened to be passing. Inspired, Rentzhog posted Greta's photograph on his personal Facebook page. By late afternoon, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter had Greta's story and face on its website. The rest is viral.
Dominic Green, 30 May 2019
See also Cory Morningstar's detailed analysis of the corporate forces behind Greta, beginning here: http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/
Greta Thunberg is just an ordinary 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl whose fiery visions have convinced the parliaments of Britain and Ireland to declare a "climate emergency". Greta's parents, actor Svante Thunberg and opera singer Malena Ernman, are just an ordinary pair of parent-managers who want to save the planet. Query their motives, and you risk being accused of "climate denial", or of bullying a vulnerable child with Asperger's. But the Greta phenomenon has also involved green lobbyists, PR hustlers, eco-academics, and a think-tank founded by a wealthy ex-minister in Sweden's Social Democratic government with links to the country's energy companies. These companies are preparing for the biggest bonanza of government contracts in history: the greening of the Western economies. Greta, whether she and her parents know it or not, is the face of their political strategy.
But this isn't the full story. In emails, media entrepeneur Rentzhog told me that he "met Greta for the first time" at the parliament, and that he "did not know Greta or Greta's parents" before then. Yet in the same emails, Rentzhog admitted to meeting Greta's mother Malena Ernman "3-4 months before everything started"—in early May 2018, when he and Malena had shared a stage at a conference called the Climate Parliament. Nor did Rentzhog stumble on Greta's protest by accident. He now admits to having been informed "the week before" by "a mailing list from a climate activist" named Bo Thorén, leader of the Fossil Free Dalsland group.
Independent journalist Rebecca Weidmo Uvell has obtained an earlier email from Bo Thorén's search for fresh green faces. In February 2018, Thorén invited a group of environmental activists, academics and politicians to plan "how we can involve and get help from young people to increase the pace of the transition to a sustainable society". In May, after Greta won second prize in an environmental op-ed writing competition run by the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Thorén approached all the competition winners with a plan for a "school strike", modelled on the student walk-outs after the shootings at Parkland, Florida. "But no one was interested," Greta's mother claims, "so Greta decided to do it for herself."
Fortunately, Greta's decision coincided with the publication of Scenes from the Heart, Svante and Malena's memoir of how saving the planet had saved their family. Unfortunately, Malena omitted to tell her publisher that Ingmar Rentzhog had commandeered Greta's stunt.
"We had a problem," says Malena's editor, Jonas Axelsson. "Journalists asked if it was promotion for the book. It wasn't at all. It was a nightmare."
It was, however, a dream for Ingmar Rentzhog. When Rentzhog combined Thorén's plan and Malena Ernman's musical fame with Greta's uncanny charisma and We Have No Time's mailing list, he turned Greta into a viral celebrity.
"I have not invented Greta," Rentzhog insists, "but I helped to spread her action to an international audience."
Trained by Al Gore's Climate Reality Project, Rentzhog set up We Don't Have Time in late 2017 to "hold leaders and companies accountable for climate change" by leveraging "the power of social media". Rentzhog and his CEO David Olsson have backgrounds in finance, not environmental activism, Rentzhog as the founder of Laika, an investment relations company, and Olsson with Svenska Bostadsfonden, one of Sweden's biggest real estate funds, whose board Rentzhog joined in June 2017. We Don't Have Time's investors included Gustav Stenbeck, whose family control Kinnevik, one of Sweden's largest investment corporations.
In May 2018, Rentzhog and Olsson of We Don't Have Time became chairman and board member of a think-tank called Global Utmaning (Global Challenge). Its founder, Kristina Persson, is an heir to an industrial fortune. She is a career trade unionist and a Social Democrat politician going back to the party's golden age under Olof Palme. She is also an ex-deputy governor of Sweden's central bank and a New Ager who has discussed her reincarnations and communication with the dead. Between 2014 and 2016, Persson served as "Minister for the Future" in the Social Democratic government of Stefan Lofven.
Petter Skogar, president of Sweden's biggest employer's association, is on Global Challenge's ten-person board. So is Johan Lindholm, chairman of the Union of Construction Workers and member of the Social Democrats' executive board. So is Anders Wijkman, president of the Club of Rome, chair of the Environmental Objectives Council, and a recipient in February 2018 of Bo Thorén's call for youth mobilisation. So is Catherina Nystedt Ringborg, former CEO of Swedish Water, advisor at the International Energy Agency, and former vice-president at Swedish-Swiss energy giant ABB.
Catherina Ringborg is also a member of green energy venture capital firm Sustainable Energy Angels. Its members are a who's who of the Swedish energy sector. Sustainable Energy Angels' president and chair of investment committee are ex-ABB personnel, and so are four of its 17 members.
When Greta met Rentzhog, he was the salaried chairman of a private think-tank owned by an ex-Social Democrat minister with a background in the energy sector. His board was stacked with powerful sectoral interests, including career Social Democrats, major union leaders, and lobbyists with links to Brussels. And his board's vice-chair was a member of one of Sweden's most powerful green energy investment groups.
Greta and her parents probably did not know this. Rentzhog seems to have wanted to keep it that way. On September 2, 2018, a week after Rentzhog claimed to have stumbled on Greta, Dagens Nyheter ran a long op-ed on the need to force the greening of the global economy by "bottom-up" action against national governments, including "broad social mobilisation . . . reminiscent of what takes place in communities threatened by war". Greta's mother was one of the nine signatories. Ex-Minister for the Future Kristina Persson and three other Global Challenge board members signed the op-ed but cited other affiliations. Only Rentzhog admitted that he was associated with Global Challenge.
An English edition of the article identifies Rentzhog and Wijkman as its authors. Rentzhog claims that "many of us involved in Global Challenge were also involved" in writing it. He admits that he showed Malena Ernman "the article and the other signatures, but not their titles for Global Challenge".
Greta's father Svante, who now devotes himself to managing her career, declined my interview requests and refused to reply to a detailed list of written questions about Ingmar Rentzhog and Global Challenge. Instead, Svante issued an evasive three-paragraph statement through an intermediary. He says that "neither I nor Greta feel qualified to answer" questions about Rentzhog's business connections, and when the family might have known about them. Svante also claims that "we have never worked with" We Have No Time or Global Challenge. Yet Greta served on We Have No Time's advisory board between November 2018 and January 2019, and Malena Ernman signed a letter with four Global Challenge board members.
When I asked Rentzhog if he had introduced Greta and her parents to other Global Challenge board members, he replied, "I don't know, maybe I did, but if Svante says no, maybe it was not connected." Svante refuses to answer my questions about whether he and Greta have met members of the Global Challenge board. But Global Challenge board member Anders Wijkman remembers.
Wijkman leads the anti-growth Club of Rome. Its alarmist 1972 report, A Limit to Growth?, has become a cornerstone of the "climate emergency" campaign. In December 2018, We Have No Time and Global Challenge launched the Club of Rome's latest vision of apocalypse, the Climate Emergency Plan. Greta, Rentzhog told me, was invited to the launch event, but was unable to attend as she was already booked to deliver a TED Talk.
The Climate Emergency Plan's talking points are Greta's talking points. "Around the year 2030, in ten years, 250 days, and ten hours," the Scandinavian Cassandra told British parliamentarians, "we will be in a position where we set off an irreversible chain reaction beyond human control that will most likely lead to the end of our civilisation as we know it." The only way to save ourselves is to follow the Climate Emergency Plan, and instantly green the global energy business through massive government investment and emergency legislation. Wijkman of the Club of Rome sees Greta as vital to pushing the "climate emergency" strategy on Europe's political class.
"We had many scientist and climate researchers who've been speaking in terms of emergency for a number of years," he told me, "but it's only now, in the last couple of months, that the concept of emergency has been more or less accepted."
Greta, Wijkman says, has been "instrumental" to this breakthrough. "Young people seemed not to pay much attention only half a year ago, but now obviously they do. So she has been a lightning rod or catalyst of this."
Has Ingmar Rentzhog been essential to Greta's rise?
"Yes, yes," Wijkman agrees, though he finds it hard to quantify. "I don't know how much he's been influential. I think that Greta and her father and mother are quite skilled."
Greta's father Svante claims she "acts independently of any organisation or individual". But Wijkman says Greta has "good advisers", such as climate change professor Kevin Anderson. Anderson claims only to "discuss" Greta's ideas and "correct" her manuscripts."I know that he has given her a lot of advice in terms of substance," Wijkman says.
In January, Rentzhog and We Have No Time used Greta's face and story in promotional materials for a share issue for a new venture. Rentzhog claimed that the family knew, but Greta and her parents parents insisted that they did not. They announced that their association with Rentzhog was over—a curious statement, considering that Svante claims they had never associated with him in the first place. Greta's new press agent, Daniel Donner, works from the office of a Brussels lobby group, the European Climate Foundation. Still, We Don't Have Time retweet Greta as if nothing has changed. In a way, nothing has.
Whatever Greta or her parents know or think, her eco-mob increases the likelihood of legislation and investment that will make colossal profits for people like Global Challenge, We Don't Have Time and Sustainable Energy Angels. For Sweden's energy titans, saving the planet means government contracts to print the green stuff. Green energy lobbyists use populist scare tactics and a children's crusade to bypass elected representatives, but their goal is technocracy not democracy, profit not redistribution. Greta, a child of woke capitalism, is being used to ease the transition to green corporatism.